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C'est déjà ça

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBIWL9S32QQ

simply groovy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7m4V_brb8o

In memory of Leon Russell the pride of Oklahoma a "Stranger in a Strange Land...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQbk2C4ZmsE

it happened to be playing,
Big Sam Thompson, Chris Thile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdFJF39HtSY

Imelda May.

I do dig a tune in three-quarter time:

https://youtu.be/mY02Tz5cHlo

I heard her for the first time yesterday on the radio doing this song on her new album:

Black Tears (with Jeff Beck)

https://youtu.be/S2xmzjKujGs

And then I went home and bought all her stuff on iTunes.

Oh man!

Swans - The River that Runs with Love Won't Run Dry.

Everybody's Talkin'

https://youtu.be/2AzEY6ZqkuE

Reminds me of the 70ties and Midnight Cowboy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS2IdfBkkj0

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Originally Posted by Danik 2016

Reminds me of the 70ties and Midnight Cowboy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS2IdfBkkj0

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Spot on. :) Should watch the movie again some time soon.

It was one of those songs I had heard before I had even started learning English and absolutely fell in love.

Angel of the Morning ~ Juice Newton

https://youtu.be/HTzGMEfbnAw

Just received this. For Malcolm Young fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9evtVy19ebQ

Ahmad Faraz listening to his own ghazal.

https://youtu.be/8d7jDX_vt3Q

Enjoyed the video. The beauty of the poem sung with such a beautiful voice is quite enchanting - even without a knowledge of the Urdu language

Quote:

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(an English translation would lose the aromatic flavor of the Urdu language here)

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- from an article linked below.

http://pakistanlink.org/Community/2007/July07/06/01.HTM

Interesting to me: Faraz has visited Newark, CA , a small community in the greater San Francisco Bay Area near Silicon Valley, where I attended high school.

Lastly -

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In conclusion one cannot help but feel that writing in English about who many consider the finest Urdu poetry writer alive today remains a difficult task. To the reader all I can add is that the flavor, the smell and the essence of the language is indeed almost impossible to translate but we have to continue to inform the world about the richness of our cultural heritage.

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... I've noted my frustration with translations before and the quote most eloquently sums up my loss.

Thank you for your introduction !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

So glad you enjoyed the song, Tailor Stately. Faraz is one of greatest poets of Urdu languge in Indian subcontinent. He wrote many forms of poetry like ghazals, nazm and kuliat.

Yes, you are right. It's almost impossible to translate Urdu poetry into English.
Here is another song with English and Urdu subtitles. I hope you'll enjoy that too.

https://youtu.be/kw4tT7SCmaY

Madredeus(Portugal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI73...=RDoUgPNZWhH-U